Isaiah 37:35

35 I've got my hand on this city to save it, Save it for my very own sake, but also for the sake of my David dynasty.'"

Isaiah 37:35 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 37:35

For I will defend this city to save it
Or, "shield it"; and if God will be the shield and protection of any place or people, they must needs be safe; who can hurt them?

For my own sake, and for my servant David's sake;
not for the merits of the inhabitants of it, but for the sake of his own name and glory, who had been blasphemed by the Assyrian monarch, and his general; and for the sake of his servant David, in whose seed he had promised the kingdom should be established; see ( 2 Samuel 7:12-16 ) and chiefly for the sake of the Messiah, David's son, and the Lord's servant, who was to spring from Hezekiah's race, and therefore must not be cut off.

Isaiah 37:35 In-Context

33 "Finally, this is God's verdict on the king of Assyria: "'Don't worry, he won't enter this city, won't let loose a single arrow, Won't brandish so much as one shield, let alone build a siege ramp against it.

34 He'll go back the same way he came. He won't set a foot in this city. God's Decree.

35 I've got my hand on this city to save it, Save it for my very own sake, but also for the sake of my David dynasty.'"

36 Then the Angel of God arrived and struck the Assyrian camp - 185,000 Assyrians died. By the time the sun came up, they were all dead - an army of corpses!

37 Sennacherib, king of Assyria, got out of there fast, back home to Nineveh.